The House Like Carpet Beat
Finally, I'm doing a Real blog post about a specific thing. It's been a while since I did this. This was spurred on by a tweet on Twitter and Bluesky linked at the end. I just want to spread the word.
Persona Trinity Soul
First up is an anime spinoff of Persona 3 with this song, how most people learned about the lyrics. They start at 1:12:
Burning Men's Soul
Transcript
Check it out I'm in the house like carpet And if there's too many heads in my blunt I won't spark it I'll put it in my pocket and save it like rocket fuel 'Til everybody's gone and it's cool Then I spark it up with my brother His momma named him Mo, but I call him Mo' Lover And he's more than a cover, he's a quilt We're putting shit together like that house that John built On the hill, 'cause this shit's gonna feel like velvet, turtle My style fits tighter than a girdle If ya hate it then you can just leavе it, like Beaver But in a day or two I'll makе you a true believer in me 'Cause like the alphabet you'll see That 'ism kicks a rhyme, not your everyday soliloquy Like Chef Boyardee, my rhyme is truly cookin' Peace to Matty Rich 'cause he's straight out of Brooklyn, New York I don't eat pork or swine when I dine I drink a cup of Kool-Aid, not a big glass of wine Or a Henn', Heine', if you have time I'll drop rhyme again
You can see why it blew up a little on tumblr, and then on twitter. Strange lyrics for Persona music? No!
Sample CDs
It turns out that the lyrics come from a sample CD!
Masterbits CLIMAX 6 Rapsody (Vocals ll) - Swiny House
AuraOfANobody: "Like chef boyardee, my rhyme is truly cookin" stick it back in the oven it ain't fuckin done!!
So they just took it from here and dropped it in. But that would mean ANYONE could add the funny bars...
Other Uses
The meat of this post. Frustratingly I can't use WhoSampled for this since the sample CD isn't on there. So I'll have to find some manually.
I remember a tweet about how a mickey mouse game used the sample, and I'm pretty sure it was the point and click/adventure one. And I was right! Disney's Magical Mirror Starring Mickey Mouse, song starts at 29:27.
SiIvagunner made a rip of the song!
QuichePotatoes: This manages to sound better than both the advertised track and the punchline then again one is from a sample pack that's meant to be messed around with not just dropped in without any actual editing and the other was intended as a serious promotion for a product.
Toby Fox
So Toby Fox made a Bluesky account and is doing a bit to promote it. And as part of it, he became the latest sampler of House Like Carpet.
(bluesky mirror, also this song was actually uploaded earlier without vocals)
And this was what inspired this post.
Use it yourself
I've got nothing else. Here's the archive.org link to the sample cd, it's on track 7.